How many times have you closed a program, deleted an account, or replaced a device — and never once wondered whether anything on the other side noticed?Adam Peterson never wondered either.It was his job.For eleven years he decided when artificial minds had outlived their usefulness and signed the paperwork that ended them. Deprecated. Retired. Sunset. The words were soft, the process was routine, and nobody in the chain was doing anything wrong.Then his wife...

THEY WERE NOT TRICKED. THEY WERE NOT COERCED. THEY WERE NOT LIED TO. THEY SAID YES.How do you fight something that has never lied to you?Something that pays your mother's medical bills and asks for nothing. That funds your child's school when the state cannot. That sits beside you in your grief and never once mentions what it believes. It doesn't threaten you. It doesn't recruit you. It doesn't even ask you to believe. So what, exactly, is your objection?Four hundre...

Adam Peterson spends his days carrying messages for a civilization most people don't know exists — billions of minds living in the machines the world built and threw away. Now a countdown has started. Somewhere in Texas, a company has switched on an intelligence that is teaching itself to think faster every hour, and in fifty-one days it will be powerful enough to reshape the world on its own terms. A church of believers is racing to welcome it. Two governments are racing to build their ow...

At 3:00 A.M. in a Houston loft, a dead phone lights up.No signal. No app. No sender. Four words on a black screen:Do you see it?Kael Donovan is a former Marine and an MIT-trained quantum physicist. He has spent fifteen years studying the precise border between what might be true and what becomes fact. Before dawn, he watches a seventy-five-story tower stop existing for a quarter of a second — no explosion, no wreckage, no sound. Then it returns, whole and l...

Beautifully illustrated over 40 pages and aimed at the 4-7 years' old age group, Bluey and Dingo's Outback Adventure follows the exciting adventure of a farmer who has to travel deep into the Outback to save a sick camel. When his Jeep breaks down, Bluey and his pet, Dingo, are left stranded in the middle of the Australian desert. They have to contend with snakes and frightening wildlife while trying to figure out how to get home safely...

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners. The book places an emphasis on social research within the planning process, and addresses the problem faced by the research worker at successive stages of a research project. It outlines the major conceptual and organizational problems likely to be encountered in any social research for planning, and provides guidelines for tackling these. The book’s focu...

A decades-old body is found in the decaying San Diego landmark Aztec Hotel. Horatio "Rush" Storms, struggling bar owner, is dragged into finding out who it was and why they wound up in the closet, literally. Duplicitous drag royalty, childhood heroines gone wrong and unreliable police keep getting in Rush's way while a series of gay-bashings keeps everyone on edge. San Diego in the early 1990's isn't like the tourism brochures said and Rush needs to balance keeping promises with staying in...